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3/27/07 at 9:09pm
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Hi everyone, I'm kinda new at this so bear with me. Alright I bought a Gateway MX6920 notebook in October of 2006. It has everything I need in a notebook except it has one problem. It tends to get pretty warm especially around the hard drive. I have been monioring it lately and noticed that it is normally around 40-45 degrees Celcius, but when I am running programs such as disk defrag. it can get up to 54 degrees. It hasn't necessarilly caused any problems yet, except the original hard drive began to get many bad sectors and then began to fail in December, but I replaced it and everything is going good so far. So heres my questions:
- Is the temperature at which my computer running unsafe for the hardware or is it okay?
- Could the original hard drive have failed because of the heat it generated? or is it just a fluke?

Thanks for all of your help, it is greatly appreciated!
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post #2 of 3
3/28/07 at 2:40am
That temp is OK. As for the HDD, laptop HDDs typically have a shorter life span than a desktop drive (largely in part due to the heat as you mentioned), but your first failure was probably just a fluke. Try running mobmeter ( http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconVa...310/mm0310.zip ). It can usually give you the temp of the HDD itself. See what kind of temperatures you are seeing on it.
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post #3 of 3
3/28/07 at 11:36am
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thanks for the help, its greatly appreciated... its good to know that my hdd heat isnt too hot for my system. any other replys are still welcome because its always nice to have more than one opinion! thanks again!
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